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• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
  Bibliographic database of government documents available to U.S. Federal Depository Libraries. 1994-present.

  Also Known As

  • Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT)

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• CQ Electronic Library
  Full-text of the CQ Weekly and The CQ Researcher, as well as the CQ Congress Collection. From the Congressional Quarterly. CQ Weekly Report: 1983 to current. CQ Researcher: 1991 to current.
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  The CQ Weekly is an excellent resource for Congress-watchers who need nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill. A user may browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles by words, dates, subjects or other criteria. The Web service also provides users with access to some CQ Weekly articles prior to when they are available in print. More congressional offices choose the CQ Weekly over any other publication to help them keep pace with what is happening on Capitol Hill.

  The CQ Researcher is the perfect answer for people who need a place to begin research on current topics. Covers current and controversial issues with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles using words, dates or other criteria.

  The CQ Congress Collection provides an analytical survey of the history and development; powers; personalities; current developments; and legislation considered and passed by the United States Congress. A wealth of data with nonbiased commentary is organized under four sections:
  

  • Public Policy Legislation presents legislative information and analysis under 23 broad topics such as agriculture, civil rights, national security, and transportation and hundreds of subtopics.
  • Members of Congress includes biographical, political, and electoral data about every member of Congress since the 97th Congress (additional Congresses will be added periodically). It also includes links to each member's "CQ Key Votes" voting record and data on how various interest groups rate the members. An advanced member search allows the user to search for members by various demographic fields.
  • CQ Key Votes organizes, by Congress and topic, the preferred data for scholarly research. Each individual "CQ Key Vote" is presented with a description of the vote along with the vote outcome by political party and includes links to the roll call vote, the full text of the legislation, and a state delegation vote map. It also provides the ability to conduct advanced vote analysis by various demographic fields.
  • The Legislative Branch provides encyclopedic information, statistical data, legislative analysis, and Supreme Court case summaries relating to the structure and powers of Congress including committee information and its relationships with other branches of government and the media.

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• GPO Access
  Text of Congressional Record, bills and bill tracking, Federal Register, U.S. Code, presidential documents, and more. 1971-current.
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• Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS)
  Statistics of the United States, covering population, work and welfare, economics, governance, and international relations. Primary data. Census data starts c1790; some data available from the 1600s; available through 2000 census. 1700s-current.
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  • Download tables in Excel or CSV; also download entire groups of tables as a zip file
  • Create custom tables; merge columns from multiple tables to create custom tables, which can also be downloaded, printed, or graphed.
  • Advanced searching of the tables, their documentation, and essays.

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• PAIS International
  Summaries articles in political, economic, and social issues. Covers the public and social policy literature of business, economics, finance, law, international relations, public administration, government, and political science. 1915-current.
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  Emphasizes issues that are or might become the subjects of legislation. Dating from 1937 to the present, PAIS International and PAIS Archive contains abstracts of journal articles, books, statistical yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, research reports and government documents from all over the world. The materials indexed are published in 60 countries in six languages -- English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. All subject headings and abstracts are written in English. Subjects:

  • Current Events
  • Economics
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Government Regulations
  • Political Science
  • Politics
  • Public Administration
  • Public Affairs
  • Social Issues
  • Social Sciences

  PAIS International and PAIS Archive may be searched separately.

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• USA.gov
  Search over 51 million web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Most of these pages are not available on commercial websites.

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  • FirstGov

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  Access restricted to University of Connecticut.